Audacity, a free Web 2.0 tool, allows the user to record live audio. Audacity then allows the user to manipulate the track, add music or other tracks over it, and convert it into different types of sound files. If the user is so inclined, he or she could convert sound recordings into digital files, remove vocals from a CD track, and change the pitch of a recording. The program also allows the user to use a " record" setting or a "sound activated" recording setting. You can also add effects, such as "fade" and "echo," and you can clip just small sections of songs or pieces of music.
Original Artifact of Tool or App (created by someone in your house)
This is an example of a three-part layered composition. (This happens to be me playing "Carol of the Bells" on the piano - I recorded each part so it would overlap the others. There is a ticking noise - that's a metronome. The piece is cut short because the whole song was too large a file to upload here.)
Classroom Uses for Tool or App
Student Examples
Record themselves practicing a speech for self-critique
Record themselves singing song for chorus for self-assessment or teacher assessment
Create a multi-layered improvisational musical composition
Description of Tool or App
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net)
Audacity, a free Web 2.0 tool, allows the user to record live audio. Audacity then allows the user to manipulate the track, add music or other tracks over it, and convert it into different types of sound files. If the user is so inclined, he or she could convert sound recordings into digital files, remove vocals from a CD track, and change the pitch of a recording. The program also allows the user to use a " record" setting or a "sound activated" recording setting. You can also add effects, such as "fade" and "echo," and you can clip just small sections of songs or pieces of music.
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Constraints of Tool or App
How To Use Tool or App
Original Artifact of Tool or App (created by someone in your house)
This is an example of a three-part layered composition. (This happens to be me playing "Carol of the Bells" on the piano - I recorded each part so it would overlap the others. There is a ticking noise - that's a metronome. The piece is cut short because the whole song was too large a file to upload here.)
Classroom Uses for Tool or App
Student Examples
Teacher Examples